Noisy Helen arrives in Harrogate

At the time of writing this the girls from the Fat Quarters will still be on the bus. They arrived bright & early this morning. Helen from the moment of getting on the bus wanted to know if they were there yet. She apparantly was also the loudest on the bus, I can't believe it really.
I am now going out into Harrogate to find food, wine & a quick visit to Betty's for goodies.
A big thanks to everyone who called by to see me today.
Kim

Out of my comfort zone

I have survived my first day at The Knitting & Stitching Show at Harrogate. Whilst I have seen a few friendly faces I am so looking forward to seeing my girls tomorrow. We have been to a fab fashions show tonight which was presented by a group of local students, so inspiring, imaginative & professional.
This is our first show out of our area. The patterns we brought from our trip to Houston have flown out. Rosalie & Melanies patterns have been our best sellers.
We have had a lovely meal at a Jazz restaurant with Gen & Bonnie tonight. Any one interested Bonnie will be in store on Saturday 8th December to demonstrate all the Husqvarna machines. Come along for a fab day out.

Some of the people we met at Houston

We met so many people, so many designers and stars in the quilting world, but we did not get everyones photographs, the good thing for me is I will always have my memories.

This is Rosalie and Melanie from
Australia. You will know them from Melly and Me fame. We spoke a couple of times throughout our visit and they were staying in our Hotel and they like us sampled the Cocktails in the Bar, (only for research purposes obviously). We have a lot of the Rosalie Quinlan design and Melly & Me patterns in store and on our web site. Have a look they are great.

Another one of my favourite designers is Anni Downs. of Hatched and Patched fame. I have spoken to Peter her husband by e-mail since we first opened so it was fab to see the both at Houston.. Gen took these photos she said they were the natural shots.
Keep checking our website as Annie will be bringing out even more patterns and you will see them first.

This photograph is one of the quilts from the new Fig Tree Book. it is winging its way to us, but if you want to see it before it arrives in store you are welcome to look at my signed copy that Joanna gave me.

The girls from Rabbits Haven were so pleased that their patterns were coming over to the UK. The first set of patterns have sold out immediately and nore are on their way.. The photos on the patterns do not show how beautiful they are. We look forward to keep the in store.

This week we are on our way to the Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate. If you are coming pop along and see us in Hall C.

We have had llots of fab new patterns and fabrics arriving on a daily basis, we are updating the website as quickly as we can.

Thanks for your comments.

Kim

Yes we are still here!!!!!!!

I am the worst when it comes to this blogging lark, no excuses (although I could give anyone interested a list).

Where do I start-yes ok at the beginning.

Well back in October we attended The Crafts for Christmas Show at the Newcastle Arena. We had a really good show it is always nice to meet people who do not live in the area and new people to quilting.

A big thanks to Emma, Genieve, Marilyn and Bonnie who worked so hard.

A week after that show I was off to Quilt Market in Houston.

We had a blast. Aswell as meeting lots of people, attending some fabulous classes and lectures, looking for new things for the shops, having the odd cocktail in the bar I was able to get some fantastic new patterns and books for the shop.

I went to quite a number of classes and it will take a while to share everything with you but I will. In these photos Marti Michell was showinfg some 2 of her Log Cabin Quilts. She was great and the class was a demonstration by her using her new book. The technique is foolproof, quick & so easy. The books are flying over the Atlantic & I will be doing a class next year in the shop.

This is Genieve trying out one of her Cosmopolitians, It is not only Carrie from Sex in the City who can drink them as it was pointed out to us by an Americian lady we met at the hotel bar called Cookie. Gen was so impressed she drank her own and Marilyns.

This is me outside yes you guessed it The Hard Rock Cafe, it was not that glam mind. The whole place was surrounded by trees that were full of birds who were making such a racket aswell as making a mess. So to get there we had to dodge the bird!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow I will post more photos. We mete Rosalie Quinlan & Melanie of Melly & Me fame, they had there camera stolen and we do have a couple of photos which we will show you later.

Also keep looking as we have some fab photos of the Quilts in the exhibition.